Cotton-press.



0,662,878. Pmmd-nov. 27, I900.

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canon PRESS.

(Application filed Feb. 24, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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HAAKON S. RINGI, OF CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN COTTON COMPANY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

COTTON PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,878, dated November 27, 1900. A

Application filed February 24:, 1900. Serial No. 6,373. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HAAKON S. RINGI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago Heights, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cotton -presses intended for making cylindrical bales by winding a continuous orsubstantially continuous sheet or bat couvolu tionally around a core, andthe invention relates particularly to the type of press described in the patent to Bessonette, No. 541,418, dated June 18, 1895. In the press described in that patent there are two balingrolls mounted in hearings in a horizontal plane, with a core between them, one of the baling-rolls being movable toward and away from the other and its bearing-boxes being connected to a pressure-cylinder. An idler is mounted below and in close proximity to the periphery of the stationary baling-roll, and one or more endless belts are passed around the idler beneath the core and up and over the movable baling-roll. Cotton being fed in the Bessonette press described to the periphery of the stationary baling-roll in the form of a sheet or bat will be wound around the core, the belt or belts serving to assist in the starting of the bale and also to additionally apply pressure. The objection to the press described in the patent is that the endless belt or belts become impressed into the bale, so that the cotton tends to overlap the edges of the belt or belts and will be caught between the belt or belts and the periphery of the movable baling-roll and finally withdrawn from the bale. This will result in a loss of cotton and is objectionable also because the waste is liable to interfere with the gearing of the press.

The object of my present invention is to overcome the objection indicated, which ob ject I effect by reversing the location of the idler, so that the endless belt or belts will run in the opposite direction with respect to the baling-rolls.

In order that the invention may be better understood, attention is directed to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a well-known type of horizontal two-roll press equipped with my present improvements, and Fig. 2 detail views showing the connection between the bearing-boxes of the movable baling-roll and of the idler.

In both of the above views corresponding parts are represented by the same numerals of reference.

1 represents the stationary baling-roll, 2 the movable baling-roll, 3 the core, and 4 the pressure-cylinder, of a well-known type of cotton-press. The baling-rolls 1 and 2 are driven by suitable gearing in the direction indicated by the arrows.

5 is an idler which in the present instance is mounted in movable bearing-boxes 6,

working in guides 7in the side frames. The bearing-boxes 6 are connected to the bearing-boXes S of the movable baling-r0112 by suitable brackets 9, as shown particularly in Fig. 2, whereby the idler 5 will move back and forth with the movable baling-roll.

10 represents one or more endless belts pass ing over the baling-roll or beneath the core 3, over the idler 5, and around and beneath a sufficiently heavy tension-roller 11 as to apply the desired stress to the belt or belts. The endless belt or belts is or are driven frictionally by the baling-roll 1.

In operation the sheet or bat of cotton will be directed to the top of the baling-roll 1 and will be carried to the core 3 by the endless belt or belts, so as to be wound upon said core. Although the belt or belts may be impressed in the baling operation beneath the surface of the bale, the cotton of which will overlap the belt or belts, yet the overlapping cotton will not be grasped by either of the baling-rolls, as is the case with the press of the patent in question, since the upper or operative face of the belt moves away from the baling-r0111 and is kept always out of engagement with the baling-roll 2.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The combination with two baling -rolls and a core mounted between them, of an idler mounted adjacent to one of said rolls, an endless belt passing over the other roll, beneath the core and around the idler, and means for driving the baling-rolls so as to move the operative or upper face of the belt toward the idler, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cotton-press, the combination with a stationary baling-roll, a movable balingroll, and a core mounted between them, of an idler mounted adjacent to one of said baling-rolls, an endless belt passing around the other baling-roll, beneath the core and over the idler, and means for rotating the balingrolls to drive the operative or upper face of the belt toward the idler, substantially as set forth.

3. In a cotton-press, the combination with a stationary baling-rol], a movable balingroll, and a core mounted between the same,

of an idler movable with the movable balingroll, and an endless belt passing over the stationary baling roll, beneath the core and around the idler, substantially as set forth.

4. In a cotton-press, theeombination with a stationary baling-roll, a movable balingroll, and a core mounted between the same, of an idler movable with the movable balingroll, an endless belt passing over the stationary baling-roll, beneath the core and around the idler, and means for rotating the balingrolls to drive the upper or operative face of the belt toward the idler, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 20th day of February, 1900.

HAAKON S. RINGI. Witnesses:

B. A. JOHNSTON, J AS. H. GIBSON. 

